To run a Jupyter notebook server with uv, you can run the command
$ uvx jupyter notebookSimilarly, if you want to run Jupyter lab, you can run
$ uvx jupyter labBoth work, but uv will kindly present a message explaining how it's actually doing you a favour, because it guessed what you wanted.
That's because uvx something usually looks for a package named “something” with a command called “something”.
As it turns out, the command jupyter comes from the package jupyter-core, not from the package jupyter.
If you're running Jupyter notebooks often, you can install the notebook server and Jupyter lab with
$ uv tool install --with jupyter jupyter-coreuv tool install jupyter failsRunning uv tool install jupyter fails because the package jupyter doesn't provide any commands by itself.
uv tool install jupyter-core doesn't workThe command uv tool install jupyter-core looks like it works because it installs the command jupyter correctly.
However, if you use --help you can see that you don't have access to the subcommands you need:
$ uv tool install jupyter-core
...
Installed 3 executables: jupyter, jupyter-migrate, jupyter-troubleshoot
$ jupyter --help
...
Available subcommands: book migrate troubleshootThat's because the subcommands notebook and lab are from the package jupyter.
The solution?
Install jupyter-core with the additional dependency jupyter, which is what the command uv tool install --with jupyter jupyter-core does.
The uv documentation has a page dedicated exclusively to the usage of uv with Jupyter, so check it out for other use cases of the uv and Jupyter combo!
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